The Total WordPress theme includes many useful action “hooks” which will allow you to easily add/remove elements from the base theme layout. You can see a list of all the different hooks inside the theme at Total/framework/hooks/hooks.php (screenshot below). Notice how these are all using the “do_action” function? That’s because these are all functions that will run in specific places of the theme.

So the do_action functions are already added to the Total theme and will run whenever something is hooked into them via add_action. So you, as the user, will be using the add_action and remove_action functions only to make your modifications.

In Total 3.0.0 you can now add custom content to any theme action hook right via the dashboard at Theme Panel > Action Hooks. The forms accept html and PHP (when enabled) giving you the ability to add content, functions, shortcodes anywhere in the theme!